Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care

Today Alphabet’s health adventures can be divided into four broad categories. These are, in rough order of ambition: wearables, health records, health-related artificial intelligence (ai) and the ultimate challenge of extending human longevity.

 Give All My Data to Google and the CDC

We can protect privacy in the time of pandemic and still use technology and data for public health and public good.

 Google is exploring a health record tool for patients

After 13 years, Google is coming back for patient health records. The tech giant has launched an early user feedback program aimed at exploring how patients might want to see, organize, and share their own medical record data.

 Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division

"Today, health is a growing, company-wide effort and the Google Health name will continue and encompass our projects that share the common purpose to improve global health outcomes," the spokesperson said.

 Our health is all we have. But now Google wants it too

The EU probe of the search engine’s deal for Fitbit is a harbinger of a future in which Big Tech is central to healthcare.

 Why Apple, Amazon, and Google are making big health care moves

Silicon Valley wants to disrupt your health care.

Amazon And Google Are Finally Tackling One Of Healthcare’s Biggest Problems: Unstructured Health Data

If these products by Amazon, Google, and other potentially emerging companies can provide a better way to leverage these data points in an safe, secure, and effective manner, it may allow for more informed and data-based decision making for generations to come.

Can Medical Alexas Make Us Healthier?

I asked these health experts an overarching question: What role should technology play in tackling the root problems of American health care? They largely agreed that advances in technology could help reduce costs and improve the quality of service in our health care system, but that it was not a silver bullet for our biggest problems.

Dr. Google And The New Group Practice That Includes Drs. Apple and Amazon

The emergence of Google, Apple and Amazon into health might transform the industry or just provide new thinking that changes everyone's perspective. Either way, Dr. Google has two new partners in its practice of medicine, and they include Dr. Apple and Dr. Amazon.

Google is now involved with healthcare data – is that a good thing?

In this world of black box surveillance, Google is probably the world’s biggest player. As long as it offers so little transparency in how it uses and processes data, we have to be wary of it to some degree – and perhaps in this context specifically.

Google is using 46 billion data points to predict the medical outcomes of hospital patients

Some of Google’s top AI researchers are trying to predict your medical outcome as soon as you’re admitted to the hospital.

Google just got access to millions of medical records. Here are the pros and cons

What Google plans to do with the records is unclear. This episode of Reset explores the potential impacts on patient privacy.

Google Searches For Ways To Put Artificial Intelligence To Use In Health Care

One of the biggest corporations on the planet is taking a serious interest in the intersection of artificial intelligence and health. Google and its sister companies, parts of the holding company Alphabet, are making a huge investment in the field, with potentially big implications for everyone who interacts with Google — which is more than a billion of us. The push into AI and health is a natural evolution for a company that has developed algorithms that reach deep into our lives through the Web.

Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms

Tech giant expands health-sector presence in latest deal to develop tools to improve medical care, as privacy concerns arise.

Google’s New Dermatology App Wasn’t Designed for People With Darker Skin

The company trained the system to recognize different skin conditions. But like Google itself, the app's data has a diversity problem.

Google’s Totally Creepy, Totally Legal Health-Data Harvesting

Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up.

Is Health Care Google's Next Big Business After Search? This Investment Bank Thinks So

Health is a big deal for Google. Two of its Alphabet companies are devoted to it. One of them, Life Sciences, recently named diabetes as its inaugural area of focus with other widespread diseases to come. Google’s co-founders (and Alphabet chiefs) are obsessed with massive, intractable medical problems.

The tricky ethics of Google’s Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records

The nation’s second-largest health system, Ascension, has agreed to allow the software behemoth Google access to tens of millions of patient records. The partnership, called Project Nightingale, aims to improve how information is used for patient care.

Why Google and Apple's Contact Tracing System Just Might Work

With so many apps in development, hopefully the API will cut down on the noise.

Why Google Is Going All In On Diabetes

Millions of people with diabetes prick a finger more than five times a day to monitor their blood glucose levels. It's a painful and expensive process. But now, Google's Life Sciences division is putting its immense resources behind new initiatives aimed at helping them better live with the disease.